Clinton to Continue Prodding Obama Over "Bitter" Comments

By: Fernando Suarez
Topics: Hillary Clinton

(CBS)

From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

PITTSBURGH - After a weekend of political jabs and wisecracks, the Clinton campaign is set to continue to push the message that Barak Obama is "out of touch" with middle class voters. A source close to the campaign tells CBS News that "after a weekend of political craze, Clinton will ask voters to step back, and really look at and reflect on the actual comments made by Obama."

Last week at a closed fund-raiser in San Francisco, Obama told a group of supporters that middle-class Americans are so "bitter" over their economic situation that they end up clinging to things like guns and religion. The remarks created a firestorm of political back-and-forth between the candidates.

At rally in Steelton, Pennsylvania last night, Obama took the opportunity to jab Clinton for playing politics over his remarks. Obama went as far as tease Clinton's previous hunting history, something Clinton began talking about on the stump when Obama's comments were first reported. "She's running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment, she's talking like she's Annie Oakley!," Obama said.

"Hillary Clinton's out there like she's on the duck blind every Sunday. She's packin' a six shooter! Come on! She knows better. That's some politics being played by Hillary Clinton. I want to see that picture of her out there in the duck blinds."

The campaign source said it is unlikely whether Clinton will address the Annie Oakley comments in her speech today because it would only trivialize the gravity of Obama's "bitter" remarks and it would only serve to "feed the beast" said the source. "Clinton takes the comments very seriously," the source added.

Clinton is in Pittsburgh where she is attending a convention of American manufacturers where she will talk about stepping up trade enforcement laws.

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by rrcampbell1 April 16, 2008 11:48 PM EDT: Excuse those of us whose urban communities are plagued by weapons fire and dead children to be too busy grieving over their loss than to grieve over the gun rights of a minority of persons which might be lost through more efficient gun control.

That is a truth which is, yes, bitter.; Reply to this comment


by jockh April 15, 2008 8:59 AM EDT: I have this vision of Hillary tumbling down a cliff and grabbing the little tree stumps on her way down, hoping that one of them will stop the fall, and keep her from crashing%u2026.can you smell the desperation wafting from Camp Clinton?

They know they have to beat Obama by over 20 points to give themselves even the most remote chance of catching him in the rest of the few remaining primary states. So they mount another desperate ploy from their hanging by a fingernail campaign, but ultimately this is much ado about nothing. ? It may cost Obama a few votes in Pennsylvania and it looks likely that Clinton will have her last hurrah by winning that state, but unless the superdelegates have a death wish for their party, he will still win the nomination; and finally Hillary will go home and take her terrible pant suits with her.; Reply to this comment


by davthewav1 April 15, 2008 2:31 AM EDT: Hillary Clinton has certainly vetted herself well recently:
as a liar, (dodging bullets in Bosnia),
a cheater,(trying to change the rules in FL & MI after signing an agreement to honor them),
and now as a hypocrite, (calling Obama an elitist when she''s one herself).
I think the super delegates are seeing her as she really is and that''s why they''re still moving to Obama''s side.
BTW, The NRA sent me a letter including a list of anti-gun politicians. Hillary Clinton was on the list, Obama was not. It seems strange that she is now posing as a gun rights advocate now trying to get votes in rural Pennsylvania. It is just another example of her hypocrisy.; Reply to this comment


by davthewav1 April 15, 2008 2:27 AM EDT: Clinton continues to label Barack Obama "out of touch" for saying that when people get economically crapped on by politicians and corporations, they get angry. From the confines of her mansions in Georgetown and Chappaqua, surveying her $110 million fortune and her long career as a corporate lawyer and Wal- Mart board member, Clinton expresses a "let them eat cake" attitude, apparently believing regular folks are totally happy when politicians like her champion policies like NAFTA that crush them. - From, Open Left; Reply to this comment


by blackyowe April 15, 2008 12:40 AM EDT: antipathy? What he said was patronizing. He sounded like us folks in the country are all half wits! He can go to Hell! This Democrat wouldn''t vote for him now no matter what.; Reply to this comment


by Jerrycnet April 14, 2008 11:23 PM EDT: Obama said those people are antipathy. Seems to me he''s the one who is really antipathy and completely lack of compassion. People are duped by some wealthy liberals in the america who love to destroy Clinton whatever way they could by propping up Obama. You don''t have to agree with people with faith and believe in 2nd amendment of constitution, but to show such contempt says loudly about the true color of this Obama character as well as his unqualification as a statesman. Imagine what outcry the media will be bursting with if either McCain or Hillary disparage African Americans with similar contemptuous remarks. They will be crucifixed by the media immediately. Here Obama and his supporters not only shown no sign of remorse, they even belittle the insensitivity and continues their offensive smear against Hillary. What arrogance projecting himself champion of hope and change and comparing himself as Kennedy and MLK. He''s nothing but another cunning politician. American are misled.; Reply to this comment


by jockh April 14, 2008 9:12 PM EDT: Hillary is NOT a liar.

I must admit that as a parent, it is all too easy to confuse a hug from a little girl with the terror of running from sniper bullets.; Reply to this comment


by blackspirit3 April 14, 2008 7:24 PM EDT: In 1969 Eileen Wellstone, 19-year woman who said Clinton assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford University campus
In 1972, a 22-year old told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton.
In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law professor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse.
From 1978-1980, during Clinton''''''''s first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually.
Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have *** with him shortly after she won her state crown
Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral ***.
Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation''''s capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress.
Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting; Reply to this comment


by blackspirit3 April 14, 2008 7:08 PM EDT: A 1969 charge by a Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said Clinton assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford University campus
In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton.
In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law professor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse.
From 1978-1980, during Clinton''s first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually.; Reply to this comment


by mudrose-2009 April 14, 2008 6:28 PM EDT: Snoboma, the Effete Slob who believes that a typical white person is a gun-toting, religious clinging, antipathetic immigrant-hating, bitter class, has just sealed his fate. No matter what the Snoboma says now, he has been outed as the Rev. Wright''s disciple. I didn''t think anybody would ever surpass Hillary in such elitism, but this mixed-raced bigot has finally showed his true racist colors. Speaking to people in Blue States has been quite elightening - they are not going with Snoboma.

P.S. Michele Snoboma upon seeing a woman at her husband''''s campaign stomp dressed to the nines said to her, "I love accessories." "My husband is an accessory". It''s a good thing despite her poor grades that Affirmative Action made it possible for her to attend Princeton. Intellectually she''''s a bit wonton, too.; Reply to this comment